Henry Newton Gaines, c. 1925

Henry Newton Gaines (1858-1928) arrived in Stuart from Kansas in 1912. After convincing a Kansas friend, J.R. Greenless, to buy about 5,000 acres to be developed as Tropical Farms, Gaines built a model farm and sold lots. He was the first chairman of the Board of County Commissioners (1925).


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